POLITICS: Cynical reason Jacob Frey and Tim Walz chose now to stop calling for Minneapolis chaos

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey launched a remarkable 180 late Wednesday: “I’m calling for peace,” he announced after an ICE agent shot an illegal Venezuelan who’d tried to murder him after a car chase.

Give him zero credit for finally realizing he’d gone too far: It was only after that incident brought a night of wild violence that he counseled calm.

Even then, he tried to pin all the blame on the feds, preening, “We cannot counter Donald Trump’s chaos with our own chaos” and urging aggressive protesters to stop “taking the bait” — as if ICE agents wanted to be stalked, heckled, blocked and attacked.

Frey will never admit that he pushed for the chaos he now condemns.

Renee Nicole Good was part of a crew working to interfere with ICE enforcement in the runup to her fatal shooting, a large-scale and extensively organized conspiracy to prevent federal agents from apprehending known violent criminals who entered the country illegally.

And Frey ordered his police to stay out of the way rather than form any kind of buffer at protests.

Even as he’d earlier ordered complete non-cooperation with ICE — which would much rather grab worst-of-the-worst illegal migrants at courthouses and jails.

Even after Good got herself killed, Frey escalated: “To ICE, get the f–k out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here,” he said that night, charging that the feds were “doing exactly the opposite” of making the city more safe — a signal the radicals were sure to take as a call to get more violent to push ICE out.

They’ve been throwing rocks and firing fireworks at agents; from the start, they’ve pushed and shoved the feds to interfere with ongoing arrests from the very start.

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But only now does Frey ask his civilians to back off.

Gov. Tim Walz, eager to change the subject from those billions lost to social-services fraud, has been least as bad.

And now, after all his own rage-baiting, on Thursday he called on President Donald Trump to “turn the temperature down” and belatedly offered “an appeal to Minnesotans” to not “fan the flames of chaos.”

The truth: Wednesday’s night’s mob attack on the ICE officer at last woke up these pathetic excuses for leaders: It was becoming obvious  that they’d gone too far.

They’ve decided the chaos no longer serves their needs; that’s why they want it to end.